Rogoff, chess, game theory, financial history & on declining dessert. A great read. Economists are not one-dimensional zombies.
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Rogoff, chess, game theory, financial history & on declining dessert. A great read. Economists are not one-dimensional zombies. The Australian Conference of Economists is being organised by William Coleman at the Australian National University this year from 10-14th July. You can register to attend here. It has a good range of invited speakers. I am always surprised at the high quality papers presented at ACE meetings from those working in parts of the public [...] This blog prophet Edward Hugh said no – the demographics of free spending exhuberance don’t mix with those of the penny-pinching oldies and even the IMF are courting his views. His blog is here and worth a look – one of his followers is Brad de Long! Hugh is an interesting guy who is thoughtfully introspective. He respects [...] The Freakonomics boys (Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner) have more nonsense coming out in a new book Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. Silly material supporting global cooling, deriding climate change policy, criticising solar energy (some startling bloopers here!) and some nutty observations on aerosol-based geoengineering – a critique is at Climate Progress which reprints much of Chapter 5 [...] I am sure that Paul Krugman’s ‘How did economists get it so wrong?’ will get much attention in the blogosphere. Worth a read although I don’t believe that policy-makers were as naive as he suggests. They lacked knowledge and always will. A good read for economic students along with the earlier counter-counter-revolutionary work of Robert Lucas. [...] Robert Solow is one of the most entertaining – and perceptive – economics writers I know. He also has a zany sense of humour but that is another story. This book review by Solow of Peter Gosselin, High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families, provides an excellent critique of the perils of privatising social [...] One prominent academic I know dislikes scientific exhibitions in museums (such as ScienceWorks in Melbourne) on the grounds that it makes ‘science’ seem too easy. The same academic dislikes the fact that I take my environmental economics students on fieldtrips to look at specific environmental problems. He thinks it is all a bit ‘down-market’. He [...] I have been listening today to some sensational podcasts by economists from Bloomberg.com. Strongly recommended – fascinating introduction to the major ideas of economics particularly interesting to economists but economists as well. The highlight for me was Ken Arrow on Hayek, on some amazing reminiscences, recent Nobel Prize Winners, global warming and Sir John Hicks. [...] |
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